A view of the Ship Launch Inn (no. 27 Quayside) at the foot of Thistle Green, Stockton Quayside.
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A view of the Ship Launch Inn (no. 27 Quayside) at the foot of Thistle Green, Stockton Quayside.
Unusually, this is only ‘half’ of the original panorama photograph which to the r/h side shows a largish sailing-ship laying on it’s side in the river Tees with it’s masts almost level with the water. What looks like a ‘tender’, or barge vessel is apparently off-loading the ship while holding it fast. It’s this dramatic scene that the gathered crowd of on-lookers are all there for.
I suppose some record of this even must exist in the archives.
Theres a lot of people milling about, working, looking for work ? A very detailed photo worth studying. Ancestors of mine mid-late 19th century and early 20th lived in and around the Quayside. I can’t imagine the conditions to have been very pleasant.
These people are waiting where the paddle steamers berthed to take on passengers and ferry them down to Middlesbrough. You can just make out a gangway on the right of the photo.
Jan they were probably waiting for the ferry’s to cross the River.
On the other side were Thornaby shipbuilding, South Stockton ship yard, The Union Foundry, Teesdale iron works and Thornaby iron works and they were only a few of the works along the banks of the Tees, a busy place.
Great picture, must be early 1900’s as the Ship Launch Inn was looking derelict by 1928
(http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2002/08/15/the-ship-launch-inn-the-quayside-stockton-c1928/)
On the right you can see the gable end of the 3 storey Remploy building shown here:
http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/quayside-stockton/
I guess it was part of the ship yard behind? where you can see the wooden scaffold sticking up.